Monica Dolan
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Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Monica was born in March 1969 into an Irish family and has a sister Gabrielle. She studied drama at the Guildhall School in London, graduating in 1991 and soon afterwards went into television. A supremely versatile character actress, she has tended to specialize in stunning portrayals of the darker side of life, as real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead (2009), demure but deadly Miss Gilchrist in the superior Poirot adaptation Poirot: After the Funeral (2006) and, particularly, as serial killer Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) for which she, along with fellow Guildhall graduate Dominic West, deservedly received a BAFTA award.
Known for
Credits
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
as Tommy's Mum
Eye in the Sky (2015)
as Angela Northman
Never Let Me Go (2010)
as Nurse
Official Secrets (2019)
as Fiona Bygate
The Dig (2021)
as May Brown
Pride (2014)
as Marion
Empire of Light (2022)
as Rosemary Bates
Cyrano (2021)
as Marie
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
as Miss Barnes
Elsinore (2026)
Actor
This Time Next Year (2024)
as Connie
Sightseers (2012)
as Janice
King Lear (2008)
as Regan
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
as Angela
The Arbor (2010)
as Ann Hamilton
The Falling (2015)
as Miss Martha Alvaro
Book Club (—)
as Jane
Days of the Bagnold Summer (2020)
as Sue
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone (2024)
as Mrs. Dorman
Wallis & Edward (2005)
as Elizabeth
My Name Is Leon (2022)
as Maureen
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
as Pitkowskaya
National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
as Karen Richards
Guernsey (2005)
as Claire
The Lost Children of Tuam (2026)
as Catherine Corless
Fern (2017)
as Woman
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Hermia
U Be Dead (2009)
as Maria Marchese
Complicit (2013)
as Judith
Rialto (2020)
as Claire
The History of Mr Polly (2007)
Actor
Occupation (2009)
as Nicky Swift
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties (2025)
as Self (Narrator)
She Stoops to Conquer (2003)
as Miss Kate Hardcastle
Typist Artist Pirate King (2023)
as Audrey Amiss
A Woman Walks Into A Bank (2022)
as Narrator
The Gift (1998)
as Jo
Excluded (2010)
as Amanda
Meconium (2011)
as Kel (voice)
Out of Darkness (2013)
Actor